Tomorrow Poem: ‘But Did’ by William Waters

Tomorrow Poem: ‘But Did’ by William Waters

But Did William Waters You did not want to but did   not say until you had. William Waters is an associate professor, in the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown. Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination Dissertation: A...
Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short

Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short

Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Alice Short On 3rd May 2018, 21-year-old rapper and poet Alice Short was one of our headliners at Fire & Dust. HCE magazine caught up with Alice after the gig, to ask a few questions…   HCE: Do you prefer to be called a poet,...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SKYE BEBBINGTON

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SKYE BEBBINGTON

Interview: Fire & Dust Meets Skye Bebbington While living in Coventry for her studies, Skye Bebbington was a regular at our Fire & Dust open mics. Sadly for the F&D crowd, she moved to Leicester around a year ago so we hadn’t seen much of her for a while –...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREW BUTTON

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANDREW BUTTON

MELTING CHEESE ON THE COSMIC PIZZA BY ANDREW BUTTON erbacce-press ISBN 978-1-907878-94-7 £10.00/96 pages Andrew Button’s first Fire & Dust headline set was back in December 2016, when he was promoting his poetry pamphlet, ‘Dry Days in Wet Towns’. In April 2018, he...
REVIEW: BEN PARKER’S ‘THE AMAZING LOST MAN’

REVIEW: BEN PARKER’S ‘THE AMAZING LOST MAN’

THE AMAZING LOST MAN BY BEN PARKER Eyewear Publishing ISBN 978-1-911335-39-9 £9.99/ 70 pages   Reviewed by: Raef Boylan   When it comes to poetry, Ben Parker is amazing. And he’s far from lost. Consequently, he had been receiving a lot of praise and respect...